Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me more.

I pray you to stay here this night also, that I may know what the Lord will answer me once more.

And now, I pray you, abide ye also here this night, and I shall know what Jehovah will say to me further.

and, now, abide, I pray you, in this place, you also, to-night; and I know what Jehovah is adding to speak with me.'

So take your rest here this night, till I have knowledge what more the Lord has to say to me.

Now therefore, you also stay here tonight, that I may know what else the LORD will say to me.'

I beg you to remain for this night also, so that I may know what the Lord will answer me again."

Nunc ergo manete, obsecro, hic vos quoque hac nocte, ut sciam quid addet Jehova loqui mihi.

Ye also - i. e., as the other envoys before you. Had Balaam possessed a sincere spirit of obedience, he would have found in the first instructions Numbers 22:12 a final decision upon the matter. His hypocritical importunity with God when the fresh messengers came from Balak demonstrates his aversion to God's declared will.

What the Lord will say unto me more - He did not know but God might make a farther discovery of his will to him, and therefore he might very innocently seek farther information.

Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the LORD will say unto me (i) more.
(i) Because he tempted God to require him contrary to his commandment, his petition was granted, but it turned to his own condemnation.

Now therefore, I pray you, tarry ye also here this night,.... As the former messengers had; this shows his strong inclination to go along with them, and do what was desired of him, could he be permitted; otherwise he might and ought to have told the messengers at once that Balak needed not to have given himself and them so much trouble, since it was not in his power to do for him what he requested; nor would he attempt it, as being contrary to the will of God, and therefore it would be their best way to return as soon as they could; but instead of that, he desires them to stay that night, which must give them some hope of succeeding in their embassy:
that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more; he hoped he would change his mind, and say something to him different from, and contrary to what he had before declared unto him, which to suppose of God is great vileness and wickedness; to such a pitch did his greedy desire after riches and honour work him up into; he ought to have been satisfied with the answer already given him, and not to have inquired more.

tarry ye also here this night, that I may know what the Lord will say unto me more--The divine will, as formerly declared, not being according to his desires, he hoped by a second request to bend it, as he had already bent his own conscience, to his ruling passions of pride and covetousness. The permission granted to Balaam is in accordance with the ordinary procedure of Providence. God often gives up men to follow the impulse of their own lusts; but there is no approval in thus leaving them to act at the prompting of their own wicked hearts (Joshua 13:27).